Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the speech by Lord Bamford on 27 October during the debate on the domestic and international implication of Brexit (HL Deb, cols 347–8), and whether it will have any effect on their Brexit negotiating position.

We welcome all contributions to the debate over the domestic and international implications of Brexit. We want to build a national consensus to our approach to the negotiations with the EU. We need to listen and talk to as many organisations, companies and institutions as possible. That is why we are engaging with the devolved administrations and a wide range of stakeholders, including academia, industry, and civil society. As the Prime Minister has said, we need to think through the issues in a sober and considered way. We have been clear that we intend the UK to be an outward-looking and global leader of free trade.